“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] As a species, however, you have developed what can almost be called a secondary nature — a world of technology in which you also now have your existence, and complicated social structures have emerged from it. To develop that kind of structure necessitated a division between subjective and objective worlds. [...]

(“Because of your individual and joint intuitive understanding and intellectual discrimination, you were able from an early age to clearly perceive the difficulties of your fellows. [...]

They will shortly be able to, and it will be a fascinating experience for me to explain what is going on because they are quite capable of understanding, you see. [...]

[...] The development would not have occurred unless you were ready for it. [...]

(During break a discussion of Joel’s development. [...]

[...] There is no reality within you that you do not understand if you open yourself to the feeling and the understanding. [...]

What he wants to do is use his abilities to clear the pathways to clear understanding of the nature of the soul, although he would not use the term for so long.

(“How come these early emotional ideas haven’t been influenced, at least somewhat modified by all the intuitive and intellectual activity, and new ideas, that have developed and taken place in the last few years?”)

Because they were formed at a time before the intellectual and intuitive abilities developed, and were not a problem until the intellectual and intuitive abilities seemed to come upon a system of thought that was in opposition to the underlying emotional beliefs. [...]

[...] It’s of one of my imaginary male heads, and I began it a week ago, following Seth’s material on art for me in the private session for April 9. [See Note 1 for the last session.] I explained to Jane that even while it’s incomplete, the painting contains improvements that I can already tell will be developed further in the next one. [...]

[...] In children under such conditions, the reasoning mind has not yet developed in all of its aspects sufficiently, so that in a certain area direct cognition shines through with its brilliant capacity.

[...] I now think that spontaneously starting to do that reflected my own intuitive understanding of her direct cognition, long before either one of us knew how to describe it. [...]

[...] Words, however, can be very elusive tools, and vary from language to language, although intrinsically through the Seth material Jane conveys depths of meaning that continue to develop within whatever language others may cast it. [...]

[...] Only in this existence is there finally some understanding, and a growing sense of responsibility. [...] Therefore they did not fully develop and the personality was at a standstill.

You are at a particular point in your existence, and it is a time for you to learn and to develop. [...]

For some time you have all been searching, and I hope to show you how to ask the proper questions; for in the questions you will find the answers, and in the answers you shall be yourselves; and knowing yourselves fulfill your purpose, and expand the limitations of your own consciousness until you can search out the past and the present and see yourselves as you are, and know that you are more than you think you are, and fulfill those abilities which you have partially developed in past lives.

[...] Yet in its emergence it provided the inner self with a new kind of feedback, a different view not only of itself; but through this, the inner self was able to glimpse possibilities of development of which it had not previously been aware. [...]

[...] Qualities of mercy and understanding that had been buried could now surface. [...]

[...] But as the psyche went through its developments and battled with itself, denying some feelings and characteristics and stressing others, so the historic religious exterior dramas represented and followed these inner aspirations, struggles, and searches.

(Slower now): All of this material now given must be considered along with the fact that beneath these developments there are the eternal aspects and creative characteristics of a force that is both undeniable and intimate. [...]

The development of his psychic abilities frightened him, for the very simple reason that in his mind a psychic did not have the same kind of status. [...]

A clear understanding of the point of power will clear that up, that seeming discrepancy between what he wants and what he has. [...]

[...] In other terms the past was altered, in that Ruburt now experienced the yearned-for mother love that was warm in its animal female understanding, supportive and strong enough to easily bear a child’s small ragings and hatreds.

[...] On another level, because the ape was in the library, compassionate and understanding, Ruburt was seeing symbolically the force of his own physical nature, quite at home with itself, and at home in the psychic library of the mind.

[...] In this life he never sought tall, strongly developed, muscular, large-boned males out, but avoided them. [...]

[...] She’s now developed difficulties with vision, hearing—especially in the left ear—walking, and practically all physical activities except sitting at her table or desk, or on the couch watching TV. The hearing trouble, a recent development comparatively, has already cut down on our mutual communication, for almost automatically I’ve stopped speaking to her unless we’re facing one another; and then I often have to repeat myself, so that our conversation becomes more episodic and the easy exchange is lost. [...]

[...] Those (underlined) issues are compounded by Ruburt understanding as of now of other people’s lives as they write to you. [...]

[...] I’ve felt that way for some time, now—that our understanding of what human beings are is minute at best. [...]

[...] The impetus for any developing and latent action is incipient in the unborn infant. [...]

[...] The inner self is a developing entity, not a finished product. [...]

[...] A lack of development, lacking any challenge or possibility for fulfillment.

I am going into this rather deeply because while we are dealing with perceptions we will also be discussing distortions, because the information will help Ruburt, and because personal examples serve well for your understanding.

[...] For my part, although I believe Seth’s contention that there are basically no accidents, I was still torn between understanding of that premise, and outrage that a young drunk could wreak such havoc on a seemingly innocent family of seven people. [...]

[...] The insights that could result, Jane and I agreed, could have excellent psychological and social implications toward understanding of such seemingly senseless accidents. [...]

[...] It could be developed as a novel. [...]

There are many new affiliations that will be developing in the future, new fields of endeavor. [...]

It is a lack of development, spiritual development, and so it will automatically lead them into trials that they will have to face. Not in terms of punishment, however, but in terms of understanding. [...]

[...] If you kill, and believe that you kill, you will bear those consequences at this level of your development, but to think that you can destroy a consciousness would make the gods laugh. [...]

[...] All of those species, for example, that seem to have passed out of existence, within your level of reality, in other probabilities have continued to exist and develop. [...]

They do and they are different, for example, than they were here for they have continued their own line of development. [...]

Now I speak to you honestly, and while you may find my words harsh they are spoken with both love and compassion, and (underlined) understanding of your innermost thoughts. [...]

[...] (Louder.) The whole development of your individuality and of your whole self is a gift of All That Is; a state of grace is the acceptance of life and vitality and joy. [...]

[...] The life that is within you knows only these terms: continued unpredetermined development, expansion; it will not flow in predetermined patterns or demands.

[...] They are often more gentle and understanding. [...]

[...] Your understanding of this must be limited because you automatically think in terms of one life experience at a time, and in linear patterns of development. [...]

(Seth smiled because of Jane’s recently developed, rather strong interest in crossword puzzles. [...]

[...] So taking a drug to prevent such a future development seemed the better side of wisdom to her—but not to me, not to Rob. [...]

In spite of all, I feel that my legs are more active, even though I don’t get around any better, and I’m hoping of course that this material itself will help spark further understanding. [...]

I do know that the ideas we have developed are far more desperately needed in the world today than I’d realized (with a laugh). [...]

[...] I also wondered—but didn’t say so—why those ideas had allowed the whole question of something like vasculitis to develop to begin with—or, for that matter, the “arthritis.” [...]

One of the main issues is the recognition of the fact that energy is good, that its expression is to be naturally encouraged, and that through such encouragement each individual best fulfills his or her life, and also adds to the development and understanding of the species.

I have told you that you are born into your times knowing in advance the problems, challenges, and potential developments that are possible.

[...] The belief was the result of faulty perception and understanding, adopted because of those other beliefs about work that no longer apply.

[...] There is no doubt of it—but in a safe, natural, and ever-accelerating rate both for his body and development.

[...] He used the last episode (on the back stairs) to trigger an important development in walking up the stairs, but he is not to imagine that everyone else is perfect because they look all right; then he deals with absolutes, becomes frightened, and exaggerates his condition, thinking in physical terms alone and forgetting those inner abilities of his, of creativity, that are indeed so important.

(2:54.) You may therefore be trying out many different kinds of experiences, sometimes endowing yourself with super attributes and strength, relying upon the body’s powers above all other considerations, while at the same time in another life you use and develop unusual mental abilities, enjoying the triumphs of creative thought, while largely ignoring the body’s agility and strength.

To some degree, that kind of understanding can help alleviate suffering itself to some extent. [...]

Yet, Jane and I were being creative with it all—the whole time—and moving several stages closer to understanding All That Is in the process. [...]

[...] We quickly agreed that we’d been setting up the illness syndrome for years, yet the deep emotional shocks accompanying its physical developments seemed to come at us like attacking dark birds zooming in from another probable reality. [...]

You may perhaps come closer to understanding how these psychological structures are manipulated if you consider the same sort of structures as they exist as dream objects in sleep.

[...] The ego to a large degree, therefore, chooses during its development those characteristic actions which will form its nature. [...]

[...] An ego which once accepted such an idea of violence, and knew it as a possibility of action, such an ego, if he then rejects the conception, can no longer afford, ever, to recognize this once acceptable emotion, for he is only too aware of the action that could have at one time developed.

[...] Possibilities for development here are very great, but most such possibilities lie still in the future, and only, so far, as possibilities. [...]